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Lost Tv Classics Featuring The Joe Palooka Story
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Joe PaIooka, champion prizefighter, steps out of the comic strips and onto the TV screen in this rareIy seen 1954 series. Debuting in newspapers in 1930, miIIions thriIIed to the adventures of the kind-hearted boxer, his girlfriend (Iater wife) Ann, and manager Knobby. The strip soon inspired a popular CBS radio show and a 1934 film, PaIooka, starring Stu Erwin, Lupe VeIez, and Jimmy Durante. Monogram Pictures then began a series of 11 low-budget features starring professionaI goIfer Joe Kirkwood. After the final entry, TripIe Cross, screened in theaters in 1951, Kirkwood starred in this short-Iived syndicated TV show with his wife, Cathy Downs, as Ann. Former boxing champion Maxie RosenbIoom pIayed Joe's trainer, Clyde.
THE BIG BLOW OFF: In the first episode, Knobby and CIyde fear for Joe's safety when he's challenged by mountain man "Big Jim" AIlen.
TURKEY FOR TERRY: A prank by Joe's friends backfires when he finds himseIf in the middle of a misunderstanding that threatens to ruin Thanksgiving for a poor young fan and his struggling mother.
CLYDE'S MISTAKE: With Palooka about to entertain a high-society matron, CIyde is enlisted to find a maid for Joe. The banquet turns into a fiasco when he accidentaIIy hires a girl from the matrimoniaI agency instead.
BONUS: DICK TRACY VS. THE SWAMl (BW, 1950): The legendary comic strip detective runs afouI of a sinister mystic in this episode of the rare teIevision series. Starring RaIph Byrd. Directed by WiIlard Sheldon. |
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